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Investment Themes, Theses, & Outlooks

• Buildings as Power Plants (Rick Zullo & Simran Suri, Equal Ventures)

• Embedded Insurance — Why Will it Matter More in 2023? (Nina Mayer, VC @ Earlybird)

• Generative AI That Saves Lives (Kahini Shah, VC @ Obvious)

• The Long View: Web3 and User Ownership (Li Jin & Jesse Walden, Variant Fund)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• Field Study: Sustainable Building Materials 2.0 (Aubrie Pagano & Stefano Gabella, Alpaca VC)

• Talking to the Protocol (Gaby Goldberg, VC @ TCG Crypto)

• Thoughts on the (Bangladeshi Startup) Market (Robin Butler, Partner @ Sturgeon Capital)

• RevOps: Is there a wave of tools to come? (Nils Howland, VC @ Dawn Capital)

• Charts to Chew On: A Tumultuous Turkey Day. (Meera Clark, Principal @ Redpoint)

• Year in Review: Vertical SaaS in Public Markets (Fractal Software)

Guides, Case Studies, and Best Practices for Operating

• Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist (Bill Gurley, GP @ Benchmark)

• How to Pick a Co-Founder (Alex Iskold, GP @ 2048)

• A Founder’s Guide To Hiring A CMO (Harsh Jawharkar, Exec Advisor @ OpenView)

• From Easy Money To Hard Conversations (Semil Shah, GP @ Haystack)

• Charting the challenges of hybrid work (Lotti Siniscalco, Partner @ Emergence)

Additional Reads

• The End of Blitzscaling (Ted Lamade for Collaborative Fund)

• The Buy And Hold Mindset (Fred Wilson, GP @ USV)

• The End of Narrative-Only Deep Tech Companies (Mike Dempsey, GP @ Compound)

• Tech Civil War (Mike Solana, VP @ Founders Fund)

• What the Analog Inventions of the 20th Century Teach Us About the Digital Inventions of the 21st (Rex Woodbury, Partner @ Index)

• VCs as Super-Perceptors: Why Assessing Founder EQ and Psychology Matters Most at the Early Stage (James Shecter, Sr. Associate @ Fika Ventures)

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